Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for September 09, 2018

Icy wind blows into town, knocks hoppers off their spots

Pockets empty of kids’ cash. Displaced bemoan their lot.

Apparatus so displeased. Who dares to queer their play?

Polar Vortex is so cold. Mob bosses rue the day.

Meet the bold Devilia. She does just as she pleases

Loves to play the wild one. She fights and taunts and teases.

To hang with Polar bundle up. He likes the frigid air

Possesses deadly weapon. Hit man extraordinaire.

So keep your distance. Have a care. This bad boy could unload

Should Tracy get within six feet enigma may explode.

Elsewhere at school Crystal spies a Polar Vortex dealer

Honey calls the cops at once, she’s right to be a squealer.

Trouble’s come to Tracyville, and not for the first time

Best steer clear of Tracy, for he’s known to battle crime.

Good morning™, suspicious schoolchildren!

Honeymoon and Crystal are on the job! It’s nice that Crystal gets to attend school with Honeymoon. She must be in a temporary foster parent situation while her situation gets sorted out. Hopefully, she will get a real family soon.

The attack on the World Trade Center was 17 years ago this week. There are so many sad stories of police officers who died in the line of duty from that incident, but many lives were saved by their actions.

https://www.odmp.org/officer/20860-police-officer-frank-m-bolusi

I get my new shoes on the 11 to replace the old ones I have specifically for my Type 2 diabetes I have. Gotta have specially made shoes that fit me directly.

I recall well that day it happened way back in 2001.

Crystal and Honeymoon seem a little too close to the dealer. I wonder if he’ll know who called the cops? Watch out girls….

Cosplaying kids?! While I can already hear the groans from some of our friends here who’d prefer every one of Tracyville’s 8 million stories to be strictly hard-boiled crime, I’m really excited about all the pieces — young, old, and new — that are being laid out to begin this tale. Jonathan K, you called it: Astor’s in the house! Will he and the girls form a three-investigator Scooby gang? Will Neil’s postulation of a possible “Peter and the Wolf” parallel prove to play out in the plot? I don’t know, but please fasten your safety harness and keep your hands inside the car at all times, it’s going to be a fun ride on the “Polar Vortex Express”!

Little Astor, or Astro as his android replicant was called in our language. In the film he was shown to be a little genius with a taste for war machines. Curiously his Astro didn’t have an interest in war at all.

And now for something completely different…..again.

At least Crystal didn’t tell Honeymoon to Zap the deale. But doesn’t Honeymoon’s wrist device have a camera feature, so she could “film” the transaction for her Grandfather to hand over to the Narcotics detail.

Glad to see the girls back! I hope all goes well for them.

Finally.

Way to go, Honeymoon and Crystal. I’ve done the same and don’t get me started on hot cars

What happened to the artwork? It’s all angles and weirdness.

Cosplays, again?!?

“Calling Narcotics!” “Calling Narcotics!” Hmm…not a bad ring to it LOL

So this drug dealer is Polar Vortex’s guy, right? Not the dealer who we thought might be Lafayette Austin undercover.

new crime fighting duo?

Crystal has a curiously good eye for drug deals going down.

Moonie’s brief glow of righteousness will quickly fade when she learns that narcs never get dates or invited to parties.

First glance: I doubt Polar Vortex will be a recurring character in this strip. Right now he looks like “one and done”.

Crystal’s turquoise hair is striking, as is her hidden (Hapsburg/Habsburg?) chin. But her prompt to Honeymoon, a.k.a. “Moon Chick,” to wrist-radio a call in so visible an open location and near the pusher in question seems unnecessarily dangerous. I hope he is too busy selling (a “nickel bag”?) to that shaggy-haired kid to notice—not that he alone could be too much trouble, but because he might bring in a lot of muscle as reinforcement against the girls. We shall, no doubt, see….

RIP Officer Bulosi. You are a true American Hero.

Time to enjoy the works of fire,

Selling of drugs at schools will bring about a mean attire,

Polar Vortex might like it cold and thinks he has a safety net,

No one has beaten Tracy to date yet.

I am sure that the darkened man will soon learn something very important,

Never miss with Tracy or face deportment.

Crystal and Honey, possibly the next crime-fighting duo to join the MCU,

this we do hope, however, it is time to say adieu.

I am not one that writes poems a lot, but I felt the need to write one today.

I posted this as a reply to the Master of Tracy Poetry – Pequod. I thought everyone might want to read it as well. Please enjoy.

Bravo, Bravo!